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TIL the CIA was allegedly behind the 1975 removal of the Australian Prime Minister

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x6pl5 TIL Warwick Davis is younger than Peter Dinklage
9Y5b6 TIL that the movie Caddyshack was filmed at a golf course in Davie, Florida. The explosions that take place during the climax of the film were reported at the nearby Fort Lauderdale airport by an incoming pilot, who suspected that a plane had crashed.
aw6oo TIL the 90s sketch comedy show “In Living Color” drew away 22% of Super Bowl XXVI’s viewers during its halftime show by doing a special live episode of their own, which is why subsequent Super Bowls got A-List performers and dropped the previous themed marching band format.
wL4Ro TIL about Mazzatello - 18th century Papal States preferred method of capital punishment... involves a mallet..
LkpM9 TIL that Michael Caine spotted Shakira Baksh in a advertisement for Maxwell House Coffee, tracked her down and married her two years later. They’ve been together ever since.